As most readers may know, Greece and the Eurogroup ministers agreed to a memorandum last week that would replace the bailout that expires on February 28 with a four-month deal that the memo stresses is in the same framework.
But as much as the memo language was agreed by the ministers, it is not yet a done deal. And it is already looking like we...

Feb. 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. I highly recommend the speech The Real News put up online the week before he was killed. In addition, a good piece over at Jacobin Magazine on his politics before he was assassinated.

Are we entering a cultural Dark Age, where the talented cannot earn a living creating culture?

Longtime correspondent G.F.B. recently sent me this 13-minute Interview with Andrew Keen . This is my first exposure to Keen, and his view that the democratization of the Web is great for politics but a disaster for what he calls the...